NWTRCC Gathers in Los Angeles this May

These gatherings are a great way to tap into the experience of people who have
been refusing to pay federal taxes in the United States for years and even
decades. New resisters and the resistance-curious are also very welcome.

Suffragist tax resister
Abby Kelley Foster
is getting some overdue recognition. The Worcester, Massachusetts city
council “voted unanimously to honor Abby Kelley Foster (1811–1887) for her
long struggle for human rights, setting in motion an effort to erect a
monument or statue in her honor,” thereby doing some measure of reparations
for the city’s persecution of the woman for her refusal to pay taxes to a
government in which she was not represented.

The presidency of Donald Trump is dangerous, and his policies are cruel and
destructive. But if we survive, the long-term damage he will have done to
the prestige of the American government may be a blessing in disguise. The
Edelman marketing consultancy firm conducts an annual “Trust Barometer”
survey of world public opinion. Here’s what they found this year
about America:

[T]rust in institutions in the United States crashed, posting the
steepest, most dramatic general population decline the Trust Barometer
has ever measured.

…The public’s confidence in the traditional structures of American
leadership is now fully undermined and has been replaced with a strong
sense of fear, uncertainty, and disillusionment.

Among the informed public, the trust crash is even steeper, with trust
declining 23 points, dropping the
U.S. from
sixth to last place out of the 28 countries surveyed.

Vast swaths of Americans no longer trust their leaders. Government had the
steepest decline (14 points) among the general population. Fewer than one
in three believe that government officials are credible.

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